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MYER PHINEAS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METALLIC PEN.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, BIYER PHINEAS, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Pens;and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a topview of a iinished pen. Fig. 2 a top view of the same, before the springis bent over to its proper position and Fig. 3 an end view of Fig. 1.

The letters of reference indicate the same parts in the differentfigures.

The nature of my invention consists in the addition of an appendage tothe upper side of a metallic pen, which serves the two-fold purpose offorming a reservoir for ink, and a spring to regulate the action andposition of the rules.

The following is a description of my improvement: In cutting the blanksI form an addition (a) to the ordinary metallic pen by leaving a portionof the plate projecting laterally and forward as shown in Fig. 2. It isthen bent over into the position shown in Fig. 1 just bearing on therules of the pen near the point, and leaving a small space between itand the pen at its broadest part. A reservoir of ink is thus formed uponthe upper side of the pen which enables t-he writer to nish about onepage of writing with one dip of ink. The part a bearing on the nibs witha yielding pressure assists materially 14,203, dated February 5, 1856.

the natural elasticity of the nibs, and prevents one rib from riding onthe other, as frequently happens with pens of great ilexibility when theuser bears too much on one side of the pen.

I am aware that pens have been constructed with a slip of elastic metalfixed to the under side for the purpose of retaining a supply of ink,but my improvements presents great advantages over this plan. Vhen thedownward pressure of the pen in the act of writing opens or separatesthe nibs it also separates the nibs from the piece underneath, and letsthe ink fall upon the paper., but when my improvement is used, the nibsare only opened suliiciently to allow the required supply to passthrough the piece a by the pressure being brought to bear harder uponthe nibs instead of being separated from them as in the former instance.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is The spring A when placed upon the upperside of the pen, and so constructed and arranged as to serve thetwo-fold purpose herein described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 25th day ofJuly, 1855.

JACOB HEi-isrniz.

